Olympics are worth pursuing

Olympic Games an opportunity we can’t pass up, Column, Aug. 2

I thoroughly enjoyed and agreed with Royson James’s column. Without the deadline and target of the Pan Am Games, the YMCA would not be getting a modern facility as a legacy of the Games. Without a facility in the West Don Lands, the Y wouldn’t be able to extend its reach to a whole new catchment area that will include the residents of the Regent Park, Moss Park, Don Mount and St. Lawrence neighbourhoods, home to many of our most vulnerable youth.

The Olympics are indeed worth pursuing and not just for a potential transit legacy either.